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Legend11 said:
Louie said:
It still doesn´t say it is sold.


http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article2933237.ece

"The R4 looks like a simple piece of plastic. It is just a couple of centimetres square, a few millimetres thick and unbelievably easy to use. For Nintendo it is the Christmas stocking filler from hell.

Made in China, available for sale over the internet and now doing a roaring trade on the streets of Tokyo, the R4 has emerged as perhaps the ultimate video game piracy tool. "


Totally incorrect. The PC is the ultimate video game piracy tool.



I have an R4 card. A friend bought it for me. And it really did kill my DS software purchases. Infact, it completely killed my DS playing. On the one hand I'm less likely to buy software since I know I don't have to pay for it. But on the other, I don't really like the R4 card. It doesn't feel like I'm playing the complete game when I use it. I have never actually put additional games on it aside from what my friend put on it for me. So I've been sucked into this Nimbus of DS gaming, and now my DS just sits on the table while I enjoy Wii games I legally purchase.



I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do. 

Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.

Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!

Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.

The more popuar a system becomes the more piracy exists, but it rarely a big problem for the system; the exception is when a system's userbase is too small and the system needs no modification to pirate the games (like the Dreamcast and PSP).

The Nintendo DS will (likely) end up with 10 Million users who will pirate the games ... Because of the nature of most pirates I would expect that they're not losing any software sales because these people would be unlikely to buy any games anyways.



Please, R4DS is ANCIENT. I have it for more than a year cause it lets you see movies, listen to mp3's and other multimedia features and it also allows homebrew. I'm sure if it was a threat to software sales it would have killed them long ago.




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I still dont even see why mod-chipping a product you own is illegal.



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Ill admit I have one, but still find myself buying the games, ive used it to try out some games first and if I really like it I buy the game. Overall its put me off buying some games as I wasent to impressed with them, but has made me buy others instead that I wouldnt of otherwise had. Although like stof over the last 3 months I havent hardly used it and have been buying Wii games instead.



ssj12 said:
I still dont even see why mod-chipping a product you own is illegal.

I don't quite understand it, but i think you are fine if you mod it and you are fine if you use that mod to play games for free as long as those games are not licenced, but if you use it to enable cheap/free play of games licenced by Nintendo then that is illegal.



HappySqurriel said:

The more popuar a system becomes the more piracy exists, but it rarely a big problem for the system; the exception is when a system's userbase is too small and the system needs no modification to pirate the games (like the Dreamcast and PSP).

The Nintendo DS will (likely) end up with 10 Million users who will pirate the games ... Because of the nature of most pirates I would expect that they're not losing any software sales because these people would be unlikely to buy any games anyways.


 It didn't hurt the Dreamcast and it hasn't hurt the PSP either.

-Im 1998/1999, computers were still shipping with CD-ROM drives, and computer CD writers and recordable CD's were still very expensive.

-P2P apps like Kazaa, Limewire, Emule, and Bittorent didn't exist, so isos were a lot harder to find.

-Nearly everyone was still using dial-up at that point in time, so even if you did manage to find DC isos, they'd take forever to download.

The PSP's poor software sales can be attribute to Sony marketing it as a multimedia device first and a gaming device second, which is why there are so many people using them as portable video players and MP3 players. TBH, the only ones that required no modification were the ones that had FW1.5, which stopped being available at retail 1.5 years ago. To modify later models requires upgrading and downgrading firmware, installing and configuring software, which the average gamer can't be arsed to do. 

 



 

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stof said:
I have an R4 card. A friend bought it for me. And it really did kill my DS software purchases. Infact, it completely killed my DS playing. On the one hand I'm less likely to buy software since I know I don't have to pay for it. But on the other, I don't really like the R4 card. It doesn't feel like I'm playing the complete game when I use it. I have never actually put additional games on it aside from what my friend put on it for me. So I've been sucked into this Nimbus of DS gaming, and now my DS just sits on the table while I enjoy Wii games I legally purchase.